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Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis e Soc. lesu presbyteri Mvsvrgia vniuersalis, siue Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta : qua vniuersa sonorum doctrina, & philosophia, musicaeque tam theoricae, quam practicae scientia, summa varietate traditur : admirandae consoni, & dissoni in mundo, adeoque vniuersa natura vires effectusque, vti noua, ita peregrina variorum speciminum exhibitione ad singulares vsus, tum in omnipoene facultate, tum potissimum in philologia, mathematica, physica, mechanica, medicina, politica, metaphysica, theologia, aperiuntur & demonstrantur

by: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680

Publication date: 1650

Topics: Music -- Early works to 1800, Music theory -- Early works to 1800, Musical instruments -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: Romae : ex typographia haeredum Francisci Corbelletti

Collection: oberlinconservatorylibrary; oberlincollegelibrary; americana; globallibraries

Contributor: Oberlin College Library

Language: Latin

Uniform title: Mursurgia universalis

Edited by Jacobus Viva, with his letter to the reader (prelim p. [19]).

Additional double-page engraved t.p. with dedicatory portrait of Leopold Guilielmus, archduke of Austria, Belgium and Burgundy; engraved by Io. Paulo Schor, Barfonius F., Romae.

Vol. 2 t.p.: Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Soc. Iesu presbyteri Mvsvrgia vniversalis, siue Ars magna consoni et dissoni. Romae, Ludouici Grignani, 1650; with additional engraved plate of Apollo playing the cythara, engraved by Petrus Miotte.

Local note: Pencilled note on front endpaper: "an unusually fine wide-margined copy, though frontispiece is from another copy. S.H."; note in ink on back endpaper: "The mounted frontispiece is from another copy, otherwise this is complete and a very fine copy. S.H. [Sidney Hamer] 2/25/62, Fredericksburg, VA".

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Identifier: athanasiikircher0000kirc

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t1nh45j4t

Invoice: 1172

Note: "Synopsis musurgiae vniuersalis in X libros digestae"--Verso of vol. 1 t.p.
"Tristychon in tomvm II"--Verso of vol. 2 t.p.
Includes 20 engraved plates, one folded, numbered I-IV, VI-X, XIII-XXIII.
Engraved vignettes at the beginning and end of each chapter and ornamental initials.
Woodcut text illustrations and musical examples.
Privilege statements, dedicatory letter, and prefaces to the reader (vol. 1, prelim. [19] p.).
Includes index to vol. I (vol. 1, final [22] p.), errata (vol. 1, final [2] p.) and to chapters within all 10 books (vol. 2, final [12] p.).
Exact collation: [19], 690 [i.e. 692], [22], [2], 462, [12] p. [vol. 1 p. 405, 554-555, 558, 559 misnumbered as p. 205, 616-617, 610, 561 respectively; p. numbered 575-576 repeated (no repeated material)].